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SUBMITTER: Toh HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3072519 | biostudies-other | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Toh H C HC Chia W K WK Sun L L Thng C H CH Soe Y Y Phoon Y P YP Yap S P SP Lim W T WT Tai W M WM Hee S W SW Tan S H SH Leong S S SS Tan E H EH
Bone marrow transplantation 20100726 4
While nonmyeloablative peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (NST) has shown efficacy against several solid tumors, it is untested in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). In a phase II clinical trial, 21 patients with pretreated metastatic NPC underwent NST with sibling PBSC allografts, using CY conditioning, thymic irradiation and in vivo T-cell depletion with thymoglobulin. Stable lymphohematopoietic chimerism was achieved in most patients and prophylactic CYA was tapered at a median of day +30. ...[more]